Biden orders release of Trump White House visitor logs to January 6 panel

Ex-president had insisted that details of who visited him in the White House were protected by executive privilege

Joe Biden has delivered another blow to Donald Trump's efforts to keep secret his actions around the time of the deadly January 6 Capitol insurrection by refusing to exert executive privilege over the former president's White House visitor logs, according to a report published on Wednesday.

The president has directed the National Archives to turn over the records within 15 days to the House committee investigating the attack by Trump supporters as a in the light of the urgency" of the panel's work, the New York Times says.